The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.

If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.